However, the website’s _site.yml file conflicts with the dashboard’s YAML header regarding the output format – and the website’s _site.yml “wins”. To address this issue, instead of knitting you can use this command to knit the dashboard.
rmarkdown::render(“dashboard_template.Rmd”, output_format = “flexdashboard::flex_dashboard”) This will create dashboard_template.html but not open it in RStudio’s Viewer pane; you can open the file in a browser instead. Alternatively, using RStudio’s Build pane to Build Website will produce the same results. To illustrate, we’ll put the dashboard we just created on a website for this topic.
All of this YAML business is only an issue for dashboards embedded in websites; a standalone dashboard (in a non-website GH repo or R Project) can be knit using the same process as other .Rmd files.